Corranda grinned for the second time in five minutes that day, when Brianna accepted one of the goblets. Then, thinking it may look odd if she did not do so, she offered Royda a drink, too.

"You want one, Dames?" she barked at the blue-eyed woman.

Royda's eyes widened, and then returned to their normal size. "Aww, thanks, man," she said brightly, taking the drink Corranda was offering her with perfect ease. She did not drink, however, thinking it impolite to do so before the others.

The old hag - Yes, that was what Corranda sometimes [read: often] called Royda in her mind - was not drinking. Corranda had known she would not and, yes, she was glad. She would have cast another Imperius if Royda had tried to drink, anyway. But, since she wasn't, things were all the more easier for Corranda Melvicks, at the moment.

She sat back in her chair, hat falling to one side.

Brianna looked over at her employees, willing them to take a goblet and drink because the faster they did so, the sooner this woman would be out of her office. She looked down at the cool liquid in the cup and decided that drinking it wouldn't make her headache any worse, so she tipped the cup in a sort of salute to Miss Melvicks and took a large swallow.

Jayden looked down at the goblet. She sighed and took a gulp to. Afterwards she looked at the old hag.

Corranda's eyes narrowed, in a mischievous sort of way. So the silly girl had drunk it. Good. Very good.

Corranda sat down, tipping back her chair, waiting for the after-effects to take place. These Ministry people were worse off than she had believed: Just imagine that, drinking something whose origins they weren't even aware of. And that, too, offered by an almost stranger. Inside, Corranda cackled.

It would be a matter of seconds before Jayden would begin to vomit, now. And bad.

Corranda just couldn't wait.

Madeline knocked on the door, and then let herself in. She was Head after all, and she had an important question to ask the head. "Hey, Brianna, you didn't by any chance send me a memo earlier, did you? Things were so hectic before I completely missed who it was from and I'm just trying to find out." She explained in a rush.

It took her a few more seconds to look around and saw that everyone was drinking something. Oh, and Corranda was still there. "Um, could I assume that we're having drinkings to celebrate the fact that your spell has been approved?" she asked the older woman. She wasn't sure if she approved the drinking of unknown drinks in her offices.

Piper took a goblet and looked at it... Here goes nothing... Piper thought as she placed the goblet on her lips and started drinking.
She turned right at the moment, when her head department miss Madeline entered the office and directed her speech to her boss.

"Miss Madeline, How nice to see you." Brianna felt the room tilt a bit, which was quite unusual, but she blamed her headache, closing her eyes she realized that the headache had spread to her stomach, which wasn't a very pleasant feeling at all. She opened her eyes and looked back up at the Department Head. "Miss Melvicks just had her charm approved after successful completion of all required tests and a full detailed explanation of the charm." She raised the clipboard, and as she did so she felt as if her stomach was turning inside out. She jumped and ran, somehow knowing that the ladies room was too far away and muttered, "Excuse me, not feeling so well." She barely made it to the trash bin before the contents of her stomach were rejected. She sat down, suddenly limp and then reached for it again. This day just couldn't get any worse, could it? She'd just agreed to drink that because she knew it would hurry the woman out of her office. She could barely think, and didn't really know what all was going on around her.

"Really? That's great!" Madeline said, smiling with glee. She was filled with pride in her employees which momentarily made her lose her sense of manners. "Congratulations Miss Melvicks! I hope you don't mind if I celebrate with you," she added, grabbing the goblet Brianna had abandoned and taking a small sip. No sooner had she gulped the liquid when she noticed that Brianna was nearly down by the trash can. "My goodness, Brianna, you don't sound well at all!" she said, kneeling down by her and rubbing her back in soothing circles. The Department Head was quite good at handling magical spells and Muggles, of course, but unfortunately Madeline lacked a lot of common sense and was completely oblivious to the connection between the drink--which she herself had just taken a sip of--and the poor condition of Brianna's stomach.

Shai was looking around at everyone and then down to her glass. Inner Shai was warning her against drinking the contents of the glass...outer Shai...well...she couldn't just let everyone else celebrate, could she? Something still seems amiss here, but I may as well celebrate, we saw nothing wrong, so she had every right to get her spell approved

She nodded at Miss Madeline and raised her glass in a toast. No sooner than she had done this she noticed that Brianna was sick. In fact nobody else looked good either...except...

She weighed the options and looked into her glass, instead of drinking it, she decided to go help Brianna. Tossing her glass aside she rushed over to her boss.

"Miss Brianna, dear, is everything ok? Do you need a healer? Is there anything I can do--anyone can do?"

She levitated a chair over to her boss, "Here sit", then rounded on Miss Melvicks, and said ever so sickeningly sweetly, "Miss Melvicks, what exactly are we drinking?" She couldn't help being the least bit suspicious, but forced herself to give Corranda a sweet smile.

Just after Jayden took the potion she saw Briana started upchucking the contents of her stomach. Feeling herself start to feel weak she excused herself. "Ill be right----" but before she could fiinsh she ran out of the room and into the hall. A trashcan was sitting outside. She bent over it. Everything out of her stomach poured into there. She frowned. After a few seconds it started again.

Brianna patted Madeline's hand, but could do nothing else. It seemed like her stomach was trying to turn itself inside out and her head was pounding. She tried to tell Shai that she was okay, or would be soon, but words just wouldn't come. She had a vague feeling that she should grab for her wand, but knew she'd be completely unable to use it in this state. Oh, what have I done? she thought to herself as she tried to take in the mayhem around her and fought to keep her stomach under control. She managed a single breath and that gave her hope that she could do this, but then it started again.

As mayhem began to ensue everywhere, Royda, too, found herself plunged right into the midst of it. She had taken an unusually large first sip of Corranda’s celebration ‘drink’, and was now emptying the contents of her stomach all over the neat, polished, Ministry floor.

Corranda, meanwhile, grinned to herself as she quietly sneaked to the other end of the office, casting her favourite Invisibility charm over her. No one could see her now. With a loud, loud cackle [which no one probably heard in all the disturbance around], she grabbed a chair and, with alarmingly surprising strength for somebody who claimed to be a hundred and nine, threw it right across the place. The chair went crashing into a wall, and large, wooden splinters flew in all four directions, landing everywhere – on Brianna, on Madeline, on Shai, Royda, Piper, Jayden, everywhere.

She cackled again, enjoying the fact that no one would be able to see her, and emptied a whole bottle of bubbling, violent pink liquid all over the person nearest [she had no time to see who it was].

Ha! She wondered who the potion had fallen on. It was a love potion, one of the best of her private stock. She then emptied what was left in the flask on the other person nearest – which, incidentally, turned out to be Royda. But the amount left in the flask had been insufficient, and what fell on Royda had quite – odd – effects on the blue-eyed, young woman.

Royda's eyes widened as someone splashed a liquid of sorts over her. A moment later, vomiting suddenly forgotten, she felt.... strange. "Corrandadadadadadadadada?" she asked loudly. "Where are you, Corrandadadadadadadada? I love youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...." Then she hiccupped and stopped in the middle of her not-yet-ended sentence. She gave a short, shrill scream, and began to run around in the room in little circles.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH."

Corranda clapped her hands on her ears, to shut out the screaming. "You stupid, thin Ministry employees," she shouted at the top of her lungs, as the disturbance grew worse and worse. “I’m going to have my revenge on you all. You thin, evil people, you think you’re so pretty and powerful.” She grabbed another chair, and threw it against the side wall, where it fell down on to the floor, a useless heap of uneven-sized wooden splinters.

Corranda raised her wand and pointed it at Shai. “You want to know what we’re drinking eh, Levy-ness? This.” A jet of cold, very, very chilly water erupted from the end of her wand, dousing the poor girl completely. Corranda cackled. “Let me show you what my spell can really do, ladies. Concealo Incantait!”

There was an explosion, a loud one, and everything in the room was in perfect disorder. There was thick, grey smoke in the entire room, and it was evidently doing its best to choke the inhabitants. Corranda, casting a charm to keep her safe from the effects, cackled loudly again. “HAHAHAHAHA. Taste this, Pipewood.”

She pointed her wand at Piper, and shouted another spell. Piper’s robes, at once, began to try to strangle her.

Cackle. Cackle. Cackle.

- As far as Corranda was concerned, this was fun. LOADS of it.

Madeline continued to rub Brianna's back until she herself began to feel sick. Within a few seconds of that first wave of nausea, she was bent over, unable to speak or move until her stomach had had it's say. "Corr--" she began, until the sickness started all over again.

Finally, it was over, but then the mayhem began all over again. Corranda was gone, invisible, shouting things all over the place, pouring water on employees...Madeline had no clue as to what was going on! Stupid, stupid Madeline! she scolded herself in her head. How could you let this happen? Tiny pieces of wood bombarded her back, her hands, everywhere, and suddenly Royda was running around in circles, screaming...

She became distracted as something wet and cold landed on her head. EWWWW! What in the world was that? She looked up to see where the strange goo had come from, but suddenly all thoughts erased from her head completely. She felt dizzy, and gripped the nearest chair to steady herself. She noticed for a brief second that Royda had the same thing all over her robes...but it seemed to be having the opposite effect on Madeline. Instead of running about in circles, or screaming for Corranda, she felt tired and light-headed, and a moment later she collapsed into a faint on the floor.

Brianna finally had control over her stomach when the liquid that got spilled on Madeline dripped all over her. She tried to focus, but was unable to do so. She now felt as if her head was spinning and she couldn't focus on anyone's face. Corranda was nowhere to be seen and then everything was splintering and shattering. She closed her eyes in an attempt to save them from the flying wood. It still grazed her skin and she could feel each pricking piece as it hit her. The smoke was clinging in her throat and eyes, stinging and burning. She couldn't breathe, she drew her wand in an attempt to clear the room of smoke, but couldn't force the words out, and couldn't focus enough to complete a nonverbal spell. So, she put it away and began to slowly make her way across the room. She had to get out and into the fresh air of the hall. She was nowhere near the door, her desk was all the way opposite of the door. She could barely make it out through the smoke.

Her hand hit something warm and soft. Squinting, she made out Madeline's form on the floor. "Madeline?" She coughed and retched, her stomach still heaving. "Is that you?" She leaned closer and saw that she was out cold. Brianna started crying at this, "Madeline, wake up! It's my fault, it's all my fault." Her tears were only making everything worse but there was nothing she could do about it.

Jayden laid weak on the floor. She felt herself being pummeled with bits of wood. The next thing she knew, smoke had filled the room and everyone was screaming. "Please stop thenoi-" she started to say but couldnt finish due to another load of nausea overcoming her.

While walking through the floors making sure everything was in order Jeremy saw smoke coming from a room down the hall on the third level. He started running. Opening the door he saw flying wood, smoke, and many people vomiting. "Whats going on here???" he asked. He grabbed the nearest girl and helped her up. "Are you ok?" she had blonde hair and it seemed as if she was very weak.

The woman had fainted! Corranda cackled so loudly, she was sure James - the James Melvicks - could probably hear her, wherever he was. And James was always somewhere far. Always.

"MWAHAHAHAHA," Corranda shouted evilly, now pulling at ventilators, blinds and the like. She grabbed something - she had no time to see what it was, all she knew was that it had been placed on a table of sorts - and, next instant, she had thrown it right into the wall in front. There was the sound of something breaking, and Corranda's cackles escalated.

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Her hand hit something warm and soft. Squinting, she made out Madeline's form on the floor. "Madeline?" She coughed and retched, her stomach still heaving. "Is that you?" She leaned closer and saw that she was out cold. Brianna started crying at this, "Madeline, wake up! It's my fault, it's all my fault." Her tears were only making everything worse but there was nothing she could do about it.

"Yes, yes, yes! Repent for your sinnnsssss, you thhiinnnn Ministry peopppllllleeee," Corranda barked, as loudly as she could. "It's all your fault, Bronanahhh. And Pipewood's. And Madelinenenene's. And Levy-ness-ness's. And Jaydy-Woody's."

She raised her wand and, suddenly, the smoke thinned - and an onset of rain began. Right there, in the very midst of the office, there was the sound of thunder, followed by some really brilliant specimens of lightning, and then the rain began to come down hard. Very hard. Huge droplets, cold and wet, which transformed into snow as they hit the ground. The place was now starting to get buried underneath thin layers of clear, icy snow. For Corranda, it was like a dream coming true. How long and how carefully she had planned for this!

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Jayden laid weak on the floor. She felt herself being pummeled with bits of wood. The next thing she knew, smoke had filled the room and everyone was screaming. "Please stop thenoi-" she started to say but couldnt finish due to another load of nausea overcoming her.

Corranda cackled loudly as Jayden's vomiting began to grow worse. "Yes, yes, taste my maggggggggiiiiicccc, deariessss," she shouted, her cackles growing quite dangerous.

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While walking through the floors making sure everything was in order Jeremy saw smoke coming from a room down the hall on the third level. He started running. Opening the door he saw flying wood, smoke, and many people vomiting. "Whats going on here???" he asked. He grabbed the nearest girl and helped her up. "Are you ok?" she had blonde hair and it seemed as if she was very weak.

Someone from the security! To say the very least, Corranda was most displeased. This was terrible, terrible, terrible. The stupid man could completely ruin her plans!

"I'll tell you what's going on in here!" she said loudly. Still invisible, she plunged her hand into her pocket, and drew out a large, full-to-the-brim bottle of love potion. Then, cackling loudly, she spilled its contents all over the poor guy. "Ha! Take that, fatso. Worship me, now."

Running around in incessant circles was starting to get very exhausting, as was shouting "Corradadadadada, I love youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" at the top of her lungs. Unable to run around any longer, Royda collapsed in a heap on the floor, eyes closed.

She opened them, a minute or so later, only to see a haze of nothingness in front of her eyes. As her vision began to clear a little, she could make out worse mayhem in the office than ever, and it seemed as if Corranda, an invisible Corranda, was the not-so-pleasant root of it all. Royda tried to get up, only to find her legs pinned down to the hard, Ministry floor by considerably large mounds of snow. She shivered, thankful that the smoke, at least, seemed to have vanished. With an effort, she kicked herself out, and looked around.

Everything was a complete wreck!

Her eyes wandered over to Brianna, who seemed both sick and awfully sad. Half tripping, half stumbling, Royda made her way over to the woman, and fell down next to her, unable to continue standing. Poor Brianna! She was so nice to me, Royda couldn't help thinking.

"Miss Bri-anna-na?" she asked, suddenly getting up again. "Are you okay? Here, let me help you." She pointed her wand at Brianna, and muttered something. "Do you feel any better, now? This should stop the nausea. What's happening, Miss Bri-anna-na? I don't know what's happening. I so don't know." Sudden tears began to cling to the large, navy eyes.

Shee jumped to her feet, very abruptly, and shouted. "CORRANDADADADA. YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS."

What was that, again? Royda's sudden shout made Corranda look her way. Darnit, the stupid girl was on her feet again. It seemed as if the effects of Corranda's love potion had worn off from her. Corranda scowled heavily, most displeased.

"Shut up, Dames," she hissed, still rejoicing in the fact that none of the people in the place could see her as the snow grew thicker, and the oxygen content of the room began to drop. Breathing, that meant, would once again become difficult for the people within. And, this time, it would be worse, since it was getting so cold alongside the oxygen reduction.

Corranda pointed her wand at Royda. "Trust me - You won't love this at all."

Royda's eyes widened unbelievingly as she found Corranda's wand directed at her. Corrandadadada couldn't hurt her. It seemed she was absolutely wrong, however. She barely had time to duck before Corranda's curse hit her. It caught the end of her pretty, blue skirt, which began to smoke as flames erupted at the end of it.

"AARRRGGHHH." Royda screamed, staring to run around everywhere again. "AARRRGGGHHH." In all the cold and the snow, the flames went out but, terrified out of her wits, Royda continued her overly-excited, circular running. "Bad Corrandada. Bad Corrandada. Baaaaaad Corrandadaaaaaaaaa....." She went crashing into a wall, headfirst.

Corranda could only cackle evilly.

Brianna felt the nausea ease and realized that Royda had helped her. Tears were still streaming down her face, but she had had enough. It was snowing and raining and thundering in her office. She watched as her lovely vase was hurled by no one at the wall and it shattered into a million pieces. She looked around to check on her employees, then spotted an unfamiliar guy amidst the turmoil. Brianna yelled at him, "Go get help, we'll try to keep her in here, but hurry!" She turned to the other side and sat up, pulling Madeline into a sitting position to keep her face free from the rain and snow. She grasped her wand again and tried to end the spell creating the weather, but it didn't work, she thought it eased a bit, but that was it. She stared around the room amidst the rubble of what had once been a perfectly good office and tried to find Corranda. She thought perhaps that the snow would fall differently around her than in the regular air and tried to focus long enough to find her. Suddenly, Royda's dress was on fire and then she crashed into a wall. "Corranda, you will pay for this, I swear it on my life. You'll regret this." Her eyes narrowed dangerously and she stood slowly, ignoring the rain and snow and wood and potions all over her, she looked around the room, intent on finding her and ending this.

Piper threw her cup as soon as she watched everyone vomitt, her robes suddenly tried to strangle her... She fell to the floor as the office turned into maham, she could see her boss falling and getting her. The snow, the rain and the thunder turned the office to everything but an office, trying to escape her robes, Piper pointed her wand at her robes and watched them as they stopped strangle her. She got up casting several spells to protect her for the invisible Corranda.
"Miss Brianna... I have a way to get her... I have one... But I can't use it... It's a non approved charm..." Piper screamed as soon as she reached her boss. "What can we do?" She asked.

Seeing the smoke turn to rain and then snow Jeremy froze with the girl in his arms. "AHH!" he yelled out as he felt something being poured onto him. Next thing he knew he felt an uncontrollale love flow through him. He wanted whoever this Corranda girl was. Looking back down at the girl who was passed out in his arms( or looked as if she had) he started pulling her away from this mess. His love for Corranda would have to wait until he could actually see her. FInally he managed to pull free the blonde haired girl. HE proppd her up against a wall and straightened himself up feeling extremely weird. "I must get help." he heard himself say. HE had no idea what he was doing but only knew where his feet were taking him. To the 8th level to get some help.

Tonya Anne walked into the Experimental charms office and looked around, "Um Hello?" she said cautiously. "Can anyone tell me where I can find Brianna Fraser?" she asked to no one in particular.

Brianna turned to the door, hearing a familiar voice over the din. "Tonya! Run, get out of here." She stumbled over towards the door, but her pants were snagged on something under the snow. Tugging furiously, she continued to yell, "Go get security! Hurry!" Her wand slipped out of her hand and she lunged after it, snagging it as she hit the snow. It was getting difficult to breathe and she was struggling to get back to her feet, gasping for air.

Tonya looked startled as Brianna yelled at her to get security. She turned and ran out of the office hoping she knew where to find someone.

Jeremy ran back from the secuirty desk. He had told everyone he knew on the way to help. Now all he had to do was get the one who had done this. He pushed past a girl who was standing in the doorway. Seeing someone falling under the snow, he started mowing his way through the snow. His muscles started aching after a while. The snow was still steadily coming down. It was up to his neck by the time he reached the person he knew to be Brianna. "Im going to help you." he yelled to her hoping she would hear over the cackles of an invisible woman.
He grabbed brianna waist and felt down the side of her body since he couldnt see a thing. Finally reaching her leg and then her foot he felt she was what she was stuck on. HE pulled from underneath the snow and was able to get her unstuck. He gave her a push before going back on top of the snow.

His heart raced. Where was this woman he had fallen for?? He loved her so much. As he looked around for more people his heart raced faster. He was being to go blind from the snow. Everything was turning white. He blinked and blinked. Come on Jeremy keep it together. He thought to himself as he scrounged around. Wait a tick... was that a hole in the snow over there??

Brianna gasped as solid hands clasped her waist and then felt them drifting over her legs. She knew he was trying to help her, so she stayed as still as possible until he found where she was caught. She was still gasping for air and stumbled when he pushed her, but she was free. She lunged for the door, trying to free her employees as she struggled through the deepening snow. Suddenly, the potion that had been on her robes soaked through to her skin, and she turned, oblivious to the snow. Corranda was somewhere in the room, and Brianna had to find her. "Corranda! Come out! I LOVE YOU!" She forgot all about her employees and the need to get out, and just started searching around, trying to find Corranda, the one she loved.